Rakuten Mobile &Rakuten Communications Platform Overview

Tareq Amin, Group EVP & CTO

Azita Arvani, GM Rakuten Mobile Americas

August 2020

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Rakuten Group: Global Innovation Company

Ecosystem Size, GTV (2019) Revenue (2019) Employees

Services Global Membership (2019) Annual Point Issued

USD172B USD11B 20,000

70+ 1.4B

YoY +24.3% YoY +14.7%

USD 2.9BP

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Technology Canvas for Future Transformation

ENABLEIndustry

ENRICHIndividual Experiences

EMPOWERSociety

5G Mobile Service

Telemedicine Smart Stadiums

Smart Cities

Drone Delivery

Manufacturing VirtualTravel

Virtual Shopping

DigitalContent

Infrastructure Principles Must Co-Exist

Security

Agility

Affordability

Three Force Multipliers

Disaggregation

Virtualization

Software-Defined

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Rakuten Architecture is Designed around Open Networks

Edge Data Centers Centralized Data Centers

FIBER FIBERFibre

SUB-6 RU

Internet

vDU

RCP CLUSTER

vDU

vDU

RCP AUTOMATOR

vDU

IP Tra

nsp

ort

CU

-CP

RCP CLUSTER

CU

-UP

vEP

C

RCP AUTOMATOR

vIMS

IP Tra

nsp

ort5G mmWave

4G LTE

Front Haul Fiber

Mid Haul Fiber

Network

OpenRAN

ARCHITECTURE

RAN

Cloud native, de-coupled, OpenRAN Architecture

AUTOMATION

& AI OPS

OPERATIONS

Pervasive automation andzero operations control

MEC

COTS-BASED

MEC DESIGN

Optimal mix of edge andcentral DCs & resources

OPEN

HW & SW

HW&SW

Standardized, open HWand SW frameworks

OpenCORE

INNOVATION

CORE

Innovation partnership w/ NEC to create OpenCORE

An open network delivers cost effective & vendor agnostic solutions

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0.5GB/Day

Data Volume / Sub

2X more compared to

other operators

70%

RCS Calls Ratio

2.5X more RCS calls

than VoLTE

Video Performance

2 Million Videos / Day

50% of traffic is video and

streaming

Network Able to Serve Demand of Data Hungry Customers

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…among proponents of “fully virtualised mobile networks”, built on cheap hardware and controlled by software in a manner similar to computing clouds. They include Rakuten, a Japanese technology group, which launched the first full-scale virtualised network on April 8th. If netheads heave their way, it may prove as momentous as Amazon’s launch in 2006 of its trailblazing cloud-computing arm.

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Rakuten Communications Platform

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Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP) is the next generation Operator Enabling Platform

Highest Efficiency on Infrastructure

Utilization – Kubernetes (RCP Cluster)

Shared Network Platform as Commercial

Model – Network Sharing (RCP Functions:

vRAN)

Cloud Native Operations for Telco –

Intelligent Operations (RCP Automator)

Open Innovation Powered by the

Ecosystem –

Open Source (RCP Marketplace)

MARKETPLACE

& INTEGRATION

INFRA &

NETWORKING

INTELLIGENT

OPERATIONS

FUNCTIONS &

ONBOARDING

PartnersChannels Connected Industry

RCP Marketplace

RCP AUTOMATOR

Intelligent OperationsBilling

Network Control

RCP CLUSTER Physical Network 3rd Party Cloud

Physical Network Functions

Virtual Network Functions Cloud-native NW Functions

Software Defined Networks

Service Design & DevOps Universal Cloud Orchestration

Rakuten Communications Platform

Rakuten Ecosystem

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RCP Marketplace: Click - Purchase - Deploy

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Elastic Backbone 8TB

Transport

Highest flexibility and scaling with lowest latency

COTS based CDC, RDC & GCs

Cloud

COTS based MEC Infrastructure deployed

4G & 5G OpenRANPlatform

RAN

Cloud native 5G radio architecture deployed on RCP

Services

RCSRakuten Link App

Single app for all communicationneeds deployed

Platform

Cloud NativeTelco Platform

Highly stable. demand elastic, cloud native telco Platform

Automation & AI-Operation

Operations

Ops efficiency with RMOPs being improved everyday

Journey of Innovation since 2018A highly stable, demand elastic and future-proof telco platform in only two years

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Designed and built upfront as a platform to enable co-innovation and openness

CLOUD PLATFORM

Leveraging open-source technology across

the board as a critical enabler to drive

innovation and openness:

Actively driving and co-innovating on key

industry cloud native open source

initiatives such as:

Creating a global network of co-

innovation labs with RCP customers:

Tokyo

San Mateo

Rome

Bangalore

Singapore

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